Welcome to GR Online, a series of short-form articles that take aim at the moving target of contemporary culture as it’s whisked along the guide rails of innovations in digital media, globalisation and late-stage capitalism.
Sous le soleil exactement
…AND WE FOUND ourselves in the old Anjou capital, Angers, in the Pays de la Loire, adrift in the...
The ball still swings
Click here to listen to Editor Ashley Hay in conversation with Ian Lowe and Ingrid Burkett. ‘IT’S JUST LIKE the game we used to play,’ a...
Solving my medical mystery
IN OCTOBER 2018 I found myself in St Vincent’s Private Hospital. Located in Darlinghurst in inner-city Sydney, it was...
On looking into mirrors
YOU LOOK INTO the mirror. There are a number around the house and every now and then one of...
A life in books
NOVEMBER 1952: BERNARD Marks has just arrived in northern Egypt from Salford, in the north of England, to begin...
The human factor
I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief...
Old growth
IN 1975, JUST before my sixteenth birthday, I read in the summer issue of Dolly magazine that everyone needed some...
A vapour trail across the sun
I AM AN amazingly fortunate woman. I am an author, well into my seventies, published for the first time. My memoir,...
Signing up to the social contract
AMONG THE MOST lovely and quirky of the books I own is a hardback compendium called The Book of...
Less than 20/20 vision
EVEN A PERFECT metaphor runs its course. For decades, 2020 has offered a convenient label for conferences and strategic...
On being sane in insane places
I’VE BEEN THINKING about how my body inhabits place and how it changes – fluctuating between comfort and pain – depending...
Where the voices aren’t
IN 2018, THE University of Oxford ran an essay competition that asked, ‘Are Men (Still) Beasts?’ Students were prompted...
